Hi,I am looking to get a satellite dish for use with my 5th wheel. We are looking to live full time out of it for about a year. I know very little about this topic. Any recommendations or advice?I have been looking on the Campingworld site and they have a good deal going on Dish systems that include a Walley box for free. I assume I would also need a tripod. It seems there are many options in the $300 range. The Tailgater seems to get good reviews. What do you recommend?thanksMatt

Do you like TV? Is it something you plan to watch daily and for more than an hour or 2 per day? Did you want to watch TV even if it's raining? If you said yes to any of these then $300 is not going to do it! Unfortunately, the answer is the Winegard Trav'ler and you are going to need to spend upward of $2000. It's worth it, however!

Holy moly! I assumed the 300 dollar 9nes were sufficient

Bill.Satellite wrote:Do you like TV? Is it something you plan to watch daily and for more than an hour or 2 per day? Did you want to watch TV even if it's raining? If you said yes to any of these then $300 is not going to do it! Unfortunately, the answer is the Winegard Trav'ler and you are going to need to spend upward of $2000. It's worth it, however!and along those lines...do you want HD or will standard def do? do you have more than one TV and if so do you want to be able to watch different programs on each set simultaneously? do you want/need a DVR? unless you're going to park your RV in one spot permanently IMO DISH IS the better choice as they are much easier to deal with when you move to a new location and want to get the local channels for that area. do you want an an automatc antenna...push a button and it fnds and locks onto the satellites or a manual one you have to set up? roof top? ground mounted? DISH has 3-satelllites with programming spread across all three. some antennas can lock onto all 3 at once while others can lock onto just one at a time. with those antennas if you change to a channel that's on a different sat the dish has to seek and lock onto that bird and that does slow things down a bit. the Winegard Trav'ler locks onto all 3 birds simultaneously. RF Mogul also makes compatible dish antennas for both DISH and DirecTV. fugure out what you want before making a purchase. good luck.

With a Pathway X2 and rudimentary eyeballing of the tree lines or using the DishPointer Pro app one can do a lot for $500. I get it done in Canada and heavily forested areas in the US. Sure, in a monsoon you may lose signal for a few. Had a Tailgater for two years and unless you are tailgating in an open parking lot, it is nothing more than an electronic doorstop. The Pathway X2 has served me well for 5 years without issue.

What are your needsHighly mobile ?Or staying in one place?

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Big_Katuna
Explorer II
Apr 27, 2018
WiFi tv is not viable for most campgrounds. Even those with WiFi.

We prefer state parks (none which have WiFi) and can rarely use the dome because of trees.

I always use the Pathway as the sat box recognizes it and gives you the menu.

QUESTION: Does the Wally recognize the Travler and give you the east west menu?
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Apr 28, 2018
DallasSteve wrote:
$2,000!!!! Holy moly 2X.

The TV business is changing at a rapid pace. I got a new Internet TV package offer in the mail from Spectrum yesterday. I was on Sling TV last month. I just switched to DirecTV Now. These new packages are cheap, but they're not satellite. They use the Internet to connect to TV networks. I am flexible enough on my TV watching that I won't need to pay $2,000 plus $100 per month. I can live with cell-based Internet signals (where possible) plus OTA antenna (where possible) for now. They are getting better every year. But if you want and can afford the other that's fine by me.

Things are changing but cellular data is not changing fast enough to make it affordable as an option for mobile TV viewing. DirecTV Now is great but how are you going to pay for all of that data when you are away from home and that unlimited data your S&B Spectrum provides?
Dutch_12078
Explorer II
Apr 28, 2018
Big Katuna wrote:

QUESTION: Does the Wally recognize the Travler and give you the east west menu?

The Dish version of the Trav'ler operates independently of the receiver, and only aligns with the Dish western arc sats. The Wally sees it as a standard 1000.2 residential triple LNB/dish.
pyoung47
Explorer
Apr 29, 2018
We have used a tailgater for several years and found it to be very reliable and easy to use. We also have unlimited cell data, and we often stream video.

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